Motivational Quotes

Peace

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

- Serling, Rod

Best Quotes about Peace

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Gide, Andre

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

Smiles, Samuel

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

Thomson, James

There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

Unesco

Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

Frank, Borman

All we are saying is give peace a chance...

Lennon, John

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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Washington, George

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Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

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Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.

Bible

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We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Franklin, Benjamin

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No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Washington, George

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One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.

Nicols, Peter

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Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Lennon, John

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The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Cicero

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If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends.You talk to your enemies.

Dayan, Moshe

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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Kennedy, John F.

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If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.

Peter McWilliams

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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Eisenberg, Larry

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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Woolf, Virginia

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Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?

Hermocrates of Syracuse

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Tao. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

W. Somerset Maugham

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It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Inge, Dean William R.

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If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Amis, Martin

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Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

Mckinley, William

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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Let the ideas clash but not the hearts.

Mehta, C. C.

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We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Pilgrim, Peace

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They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves.